Your response below, was weak, to say the least.
Youre a poster boy for the internal contradictions that make Libz what they are.
in your response below, you
1. Challenged the historical existence of Saint Paul.(!)
2. Assert "humans" are "animals" without offering any meaningful distinctions.
( "very very unique animals" applies equally to all species, from bacterium to German Shepherds, please elaborate!)
3. Seem to acknowledge the existence of SIN, but you imagine God's mercy extends to all humans regardless of their spiritual disposition, which negates the meaning and purpose of the Christian Incarnation, Crucifiction, and atonement.
4. Reduce the factual history of Christianity to your opinion, you reduce FAITH to an abstract concept which needs no particular or proper locus.(faith in What? )
5. celebrate your own sexual deviance .. (sexting up other men's' wives) and suggesting banging trannies is within the realm of normalcy.
6. Support the Lincoln Project, a perverse organization dedicated to opposing Trump in particular, which imagines the Republican Party as a feckless cooperation with the Democrat Mafia, itself an offshoot of corrupt anti-democratic influences ( big money )
Yeah, , and you think you're a "Republican" too.
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Now let me set you straight, line by line.
1. Saul of Tarsus was a well known historical figure, being groomed to become a member of the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem during Jesus life on earth. He became the Apostle Paul after reputedly receiving a vision of a resurrected Christ while on the Road to Damascus -- this, where he originally intended to persecute, torture and kill members of the budding Christian sect, just as he had before in Jerusalem.
These historical facts are not disputable
There is more historical and textual evidence for the existence of Paul than Aristotle, for example. Paul's writings comprise most of the New Testament, with texts extant to the first century. Who, if not Paul spread Christine Doctrine throughout Asia Minor?
If you deny this, you are simply being obtuse.
Do you deny the existence of Mohammed? Joseph Smith? Alester Crowley?
All of them claimed they had "visions" and left a written legacy, which turned into an organized religion.
What they claimed about the nature of man, God, and the universe, was profoundly different in each case
Pick your poison. Buddha? Zoroastrianism? Hare Krishna? Secular humanism?
Your position would fall more in line with Crowley ( Ordo Templi Orientis) since Crowleys motto
"Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" and he was a sexual libertine, rivaling the Marquis De Sade!
This would be in keeping with your self-referent "religious" pronouncements and gratuitous denials of fact
Even Crowley didn't question the existence of St Paul, and like you, his sexual proclivities ranged the entire spectrum of married women (he reputedly fathered Barbra Bush--she looked just like him at age 60, even GW knows it!)
You deny the meaning of Christianity by denying that sin exists, or that sin necessitated an Act of God ( the crucifiction) to atonest for mankind's sin.
Jesus said "all men's sins will be forgiven except this: Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit."
To deny the existence of Paul, to attempt to relativise his message, to reduce the historical resurrection to mere myth, to assert your own feelings in the matter contrary to sound doctrine and historical fact, are all indications of such --Blasphemy--
Don't worry. We don't burn people at the stake for this anymore, as Protestants we let God judge the eternal destiny of a mans eternal soul- A judgement which you also deny, ( hell ) despite evidence of the depravity of humans, and the obvious need for Gods judgement.
what exactly survives the death of the body? You say you don't believe in a human soul, "death is death".. I showed you a picture of a specter linguring in the graveyard by Crowleys home in Scotland.. you deny photographic " "evidence"., and you don't believe in Christian concepts like an "immortal soul."
Even Crowley knew better!
But then you go on to say ( below) Gods infinite mercy won't send anyone to hell? Wait a minute. You can't have it both ways, either the eternal human soul exists ( to be judged) or it does not. Which is it?
2, since you assert Humans are animals- where is the distinction?
Your dodge "very very unique" is whistling past the graveyard. if there is no soul in humans then "welcome to the jungle" ( Guns n Roses) and stop pontificating about your personal conception of God. Naturalistic Evolution is an atheistic premise, and you can't have it both ways.
Madeline Ohare once remarked: "agnosticism is gutless atheism" I couldnt agree more.
if you wanna be an atheist, a leftist, a crypto communist, fine. That is your God ordained freedom as a human, but it doesn't mean that your understanding of yourself, humanity, and the universe is accurate.
Logical Consistency is a test of truth. You are inconsistent, and your philosophical assertions are contradictory
( indicating falsehood)
3. Sin. Does it exist? Does evil exist? How do you define it, and why should we agree?
Paul/ Jesus/ Christianity asserts sin is a violation of your own spiritual makeup, having been created in the "Image of God"..
that characteristic is what makes you human. Lacking a better definition, do you deny sin snd evil objectively exist? if not what is your reference point?
My dog killed ( murdered?) my cat last winter. Very sad. A Maine Coon-Cat, about ten pounds, but no match for the jaws of my 80 lb springer-spaniel-pitbull "Tavern."
I was angry with Tavern, but he had no concept of why. As his master, i could legally execute him for his "crime" but him not being a human made in the Image of God- I can't hold him to human standards ( first degree murder)
I can and I do punish him if he shits on the carpet. He knows better.
according to Christian doctrine, God holds humans accountable for what they know is HIS moral truth. That is righteous judgement. Deny it at your own peril!
4 your concept of FAITH : in what exactly? Like all moral relativists you must attempt to relativize the source of a moral standard. relativising religious proclamations you assert your own. (Alester would be so proud, as would be his father in Hell, Lucifer) You deny the proper object of faith, and substitute a black hole in which all factual and moral distinctions are reduced to irrational and inconsistent personal opinion.
That is properly called "solipsism" in philosophy- look it up. And your arguments reduce by extension to "sophistry".
5. As you have said before, you like to chase other men's wives. That's pathetic, even among chimpanzees! the Beta males furtively mate with the Apha Males pride behind his back, lest they be caught in the act get their assess kicked. if no one (but your ex wife perhaps ) has "kicked your ass" for that that sort of behavior, maybe it's because the women you chase really aren't with it?
Delusions of grandeur, I suspect.
Yes, and Christie Brinkley has a thing for 40 foot Great white Sharks like me, i constantly rebuff her advances!
But then, she is divorced at least. And just another misguided Democrat!
6. Lincoln Project? I guess RINOs need a place to call home too, but the fact is-
THE REPUBUBLICAN Party will be what the people of this country want it to be. Romney and Biden and you don't get to decide. You can say "Trump isn't a Republican" but the truth is, Trump has become the souls of thevRepublican party. it's you who is outta step, Crowbot,
you thinking otherwise
makes you look like a
useful idiot!
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